This article aims to analyse different modellings of the “reader hero” in contemporary Argentine narrative. To this end, I will adopt the concept developed by Carlos Gamerro (“En toda la historia argentina…”) on the basis of Ricardo Piglia’s studies (El ultimo lector) and I will look into its productivity in portraying the subjective makeup of the young activists of the 1960s and 1970s. I will then approach the novels La aventura de los bustos de Eva, El camino de Ida and Cine in order to describe the different new forms of the “reader hero” in a historical/cultural context marked by the defeat of that revolutionary project.